Tourist attractions along the peninsula

Stanford University

Near Palo Alto, Stanford University is a tourist attraction. See this view of it.

(image from http://frank.harvard.edu/~howard/photo/stanford/pix/hoover_and_bldgs.jpg)

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Pulgas Water Temple

Further North, across the first ridge of foothills, there's a huge reservoir, supplying water for San Francisco and most of the peninsula. Water from Yosemite flows through the Hetch Hetchy aquaduct to this reservoir. The point where the water goes into the reservoir is the Pulgas Water Temple, shown here.

(image from http://www.crackmonkey.org/pulgas.jpg)

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